Panel

Call for papers in the „Med­ical Cri­tique in Hash­tags? Chron­ic Health Con­di­tions on Social Media” at the STS-Hub
Berlin
11–14.03.2025
Dead­line: 31.10.2024

The aim of the pan­el to dis­cuss the role of social media as a plat­form for gen­er­at­ing aware­ness and form­ing inter­est groups around med­ical cri­tique. In par­tic­u­lar, the pan­el wants to explore chron­ic health con­di­tions that receive inad­e­quate atten­tion with­in the estab­lished (bio)medical sys­tem, such as ADHD and autism in women, endometrio­sis, ME/CFS, and/or Long COVID. 

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Revi­tal­iz­ing Applied Anthropology
85th Annu­al Meeting
March 25–29, 2025
Hilton Port­land Down­town Port­land, OR

The SfAA Annu­al Meet­ing pro­vides an invalu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for schol­ars, prac­tic­ing social sci­en­tists, and stu­dents from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines and orga­ni­za­tions to dis­cuss their work and brain­storm for the future. It is more than just a con­fer­ence: it’s a rich place to trade ideas, meth­ods, and prac­ti­cal solu­tions, as well as enter the life­world of oth­er pro­fes­sion­als. SfAA mem­bers come from a vari­ety of dis­ci­plines — anthro­pol­o­gy, soci­ol­o­gy, eco­nom­ics, busi­ness, plan­ning, med­i­cine, nurs­ing, law, and oth­er relat­ed social/behavioral sci­ences. Make 2025 the year you’ll spend a few days pre­sent­ing, learn­ing, and net­work­ing in Port­land, OR, with the SfAA.

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Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments
Pan­el for the ASA UK con­fer­ence in Birmingham
8–11^th April 2025

We’re aim­ing to bring togeth­er ethno­graph­ic insights from the field of anthro­pol­o­gy of ethics with applied anthro­pol­o­gy in the con­text of health.

Short Abstract

This pan­el explores ethno­graph­i­cal­ly how ethics shapes health-seek­ing behav­iours and how health ser­vices may design care path­ways that accom­mo­date diverse moral world­views. Eth­i­cal frame­works and lived expe­ri­ence ‑espe­cial­ly in sit­u­a­tions of pre­car­i­ty- shape how peo­ple nav­i­gate health services.

Long Abstract

Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments.

To pro­vide ade­quate ser­vices, health providers and civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions need for their care path­ways to be adapt­ed to the real­i­ty of health-seek­ing prac­tices.  In turn, in super­di­verse envi­ron­ments, advice and health-seek­ing dif­fers between social groups (accord­ing to gen­der, income, race and eth­nic­i­ty, migra­tion sta­tus and so on). In cir­cum­stances of extreme pre­car­i­ty – cost of liv­ing cri­sis, in-pover­ty employ­ment, racism and dis­crim­i­na­tion, etc.- uncer­tain­ty and lived expe­ri­ence play a major role (Mac­Gre­gor et al 2020).

Peo­ple do not behave in a pre­dict­ed lin­ear fash­ion sole­ly accord­ing to their socio-demo­graph­ic char­ac­ter­is­tics, but rather expe­ri­ence pre­car­i­ous life and deal with emer­gent and unex­pect­ed chal­lenges and pri­or­i­ties of an uncer­tain envi­ron­ment (Al-Moham­mad and Pelu­so 2012). In turn peo­ple prac­tice moral nav­i­ga­tion, adapt­ing and reassess­ing their val­ues, pri­or­i­ties and health deci­sions as their ther­a­peu­tic itin­er­ary unfolds, rather than fol­low­ing fixed path­ways (White and Jha 2021).

People’s eth­i­cal frame­works – how they behave as eth­i­cal agents, moral­ly bound to oth­ers (their peers, their fam­i­lies, etc.)- shape how peo­ple seek health advice and their deci­sions when engag­ing with health providers and pub­lic ser­vices (Ripoll et al 2022).

This pan­el is seek­ing ethno­graph­ic papers that con­tribute to the fol­low­ing questions:

• How do people’s moral and eth­i­cal demands shape their health-seek­ing practices?
• Do peo­ple face moral conun­drums when decid­ing to make par­tic­u­lar deci­sions in health care or in and how do they
• What role does uncer­tain­ty and emer­gence play in this moral nav­i­ga­tion of health services?
• How do health ser­vice providers take into account people’s moral lives when assess­ing people’s nav­i­ga­tion of health services?
• Can care path­ways be adapt­ed to the dif­fer­ent moral world­views of the peo­ple they wish to sup­port through the health system?

This pan­el will aim to bring togeth­er ethno­graph­ic insights from the field of anthro­pol­o­gy of ethics with applied anthro­pol­o­gy in the con­text of health.

To pro­pose a paper, please do so through the ASA web­site. https://theasa.org/conferences/asa2025/programme#15931

Ref­er­ences

Al-Moham­mad, H., & Pelu­so, D. (2012). Ethics and the “rough ground” of the every­day: the over­lap­pings of life in postin­va­sion Iraq. HAU: Jour­nal of Ethno­graph­ic The­o­ry, 2(2), 42–58.

Mac­Gre­gor, H., Ripoll, S., & Leach, M. (2020). Dis­ease out­breaks: nav­i­gat­ing uncer­tain­ties in pre­pared­ness and response. Tay­lor and Francis.

Ripoll, S., Ouvri­er, A., Hryn­ick, T., & Schmidt-Sane, M. (2022). Vac­cine Equi­ty in Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Urban Set­tings. A com­par­a­tive analy­sis of local gov­ern­ment and com­mu­ni­ty action, con­tex­tu­alised polit­i­cal economies, and moral frame­works in Mar­seille and London

White, S. C., & Jha, S. (2021). Moral nav­i­ga­tion and child fos­ter­ing in Chi­awa, Zam­bia. Africa, 91(2), 249–269.

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„Eth­i­cal frame­works, health-seek­ing and care-path­ways in super­di­verse environments”
8–11.04.2025
Birm­ing­ham, UK
More Info: https://theasa.org/conferences/asa2025/programme#15931

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„Social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion: Entan­gled con­cepts on the move in med­ical research, prac­tice, and policy”
Pan­el at the upcom­ing ASA 2025 con­fer­ence tak­ing place in
8–11 April
Birmingham

Social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion: Entan­gled con­cepts on the move in med­ical research, prac­tice, and pol­i­cy will be a pan­el exam­in­ing the entan­gling of social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion in med­ical research, prac­tice, and pol­i­cy, broad­ly con­ceived (pun intend­ed). We invite anthro­po­log­i­cal works which con­sid­er these rela­tions today, espe­cial­ly via the social repro­duc­tion of kin­ship, par­ent­hood, or tech­nolo­gies of relat­ed­ness. The long abstract with more infor­ma­tion is pro­vid­ed below.

The dead­line for abstracts is Novem­ber 18th. Abstracts may be sub­mit­ted by fol­low­ing this link.

Con­venors:

Tay­lor Riley (Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege London)
Olga Dolet­skaya (Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege London)

Long abstract:

Bio­log­i­cal and social repro­duc­tion are deeply entan­gled (Rapp and Gins­burg 1991) and repro­duc­tion is always a con­cept on the move. ‘Social repro­duc­tion’ has been tak­en up wide­ly in fem­i­nist research as both the under­val­ued labour that sus­tains human life and the labour that repro­duces social sys­tems and rela­tions. What repro­duc­tion and kin­ship are bio­log­i­cal­ly is co-repro­duced with their legal, eco­nom­ic, and cul­tur­al mean­ings. As assist­ed repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies (ARTs) become, though uneven­ly, more ordi­nary (Franklin 2013), entwined con­cepts of social and bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion con­tin­ue to travel.

In their close atten­tion to human expe­ri­ences and rela­tions, anthro­po­log­i­cal approach­es, such as bioethnog­ra­phy (Roberts and Sanz 2017), are well-suit­ed to trace these trav­els today. Pop­u­la­tion stud­ies such as birth cohorts are invest­ed in the busi­ness of bio­log­i­cal repro­duc­tion along­side the social repro­duc­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion that keeps stud­ies alive. The pro­lif­er­a­tion of ARTs like in vit­ro game­to­ge­n­e­sis will neces­si­tate social­ly repro­duced changes to con­cepts of relat­ed­ness. Repro­duc­tive jus­tice is impli­cat­ed in the above and oth­er examples—how do these social repro­duc­tions deny or grant access to per­son­hood or care, espe­cial­ly for those who are mar­gin­al­ized? Can kin­ship be post-genom­ic in these con­texts, or only elsewhere?

We invite works using ethno­graph­ic meth­ods to dis­cuss bio­log­i­cal and social repro­duc­tion with ref­er­ence to bio­med­ical dis­cours­es and/or insti­tu­tions, health poli­cies, pop­u­la­tion research, and/or the worlds of sci­ence and med­i­cine, broad­ly defined. Papers could e.g. focus on:

• Stud­ies of conception/birth, maternal/infant health, fam­i­lies, and/or parenting
• Genet­ic or epi­ge­net­ic research and/or policies
• Repro­duc­tive health research and/or policies
• ARTs
• Med­ical­ized fer­til­i­ty and/or infertility

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Call for Pan­els: RAI FILM Online Con­fer­ence 2025: „Where Are We Now? Visu­al and Mul­ti­modal Anthropology”
28 April – 2 May 2025 (Online only)

RAI FILM and the Film Com­mit­tee of the Roy­al Anthro­po­log­i­cal Insti­tute invites pan­el, round­table, and work­shop pro­pos­als on any facet of visu­al, mul­ti­sen­so­ry and mul­ti­modal Anthro­pol­o­gy. We want to redou­ble our efforts to achieve a bet­ter and more sus­tain­able future for all by learn­ing more about how anthro­pol­o­gists are using these meth­ods to respond to glob­al chal­lenges of our times. We encour­age pre­sen­ta­tions that explore emer­gent method­olo­gies and inter­ac­tive approach­es. We offer an inclu­sive forum to explore cre­ative and inno­v­a­tive approach­es, dis­cuss col­lab­o­ra­tive and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry meth­ods and tack­le prac­ti­cal problems.
Pos­si­ble areas of con­tem­po­rary inter­est might be dia­logues between emer­gent and exist­ing forms of film mak­ing; AI and chang­ing tech­nolo­gies (extend­ed real­i­ty (XR); sto­ry­telling and nar­ra­tive, indige­nous film­mak­ing; ani­ma­tion, and aesthetics.
In addi­tion to this open call, we are also look­ing to high­light the glob­al chal­lenges for visu­al and mul­ti­modal anthro­pol­o­gy. We ask how visu­al and mul­ti­modal meth­ods can help to address the glob­al chal­lenges of our times. We want to learn how anthro­pol­o­gists are using visu­al and mul­ti­modal tools to respond to issues such as inequal­i­ty, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, pover­ty, cli­mate change, war, and jus­tice. We wel­come engage­ment with top­ics such as food and hunger, water, migra­tion, forced dis­place­ment, extrem­ism and intol­er­ance, social inequal­i­ties, men­tal health, dis­abil­i­ty, dis­crim­i­na­tion and geno­cide, peace and jus­tice, cli­mate change and sus­tain­abil­i­ty, renew­ables and just economies.
This vir­tu­al con­fer­ence sits along­side the RAI FILM Fes­ti­val which is a bien­ni­al inter­na­tion­al event cel­e­brat­ing the best in doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ing from around the globe and estab­lished in 1985 by the Roy­al Anthro­po­log­i­cal Insti­tute (UK). The fes­ti­val show­cas­es new work from aca­d­e­m­ic anthro­pol­o­gists and relat­ed dis­ci­plines, and from film­mak­ers at all lev­els of expe­ri­ence from stu­dents to pro­fes­sion­als. It looks for fear­less films that ask dif­fi­cult ques­tions, build bridges, seek redress and pro­mote social jus­tice and dialogue.

To see our two most recent edi­tions see: https://festival.raifilm.org.uk/

RAI FILM Fes­ti­val 2025 will cel­e­brate our 40th anniver­sary both in per­son and online:  https://raifilm.org.uk/rai-film-festival-2025/

In per­son film fes­ti­val – 27–30 March 2025 at Water­shed & Arnolfi­ni, Bris­tol UK
Screen­ings, gala events, work­shops and talks
Fes­ti­val films avail­able online through­out April 2025
Stream­ing 80 films avail­able 24/7 worldwide
RAI FILM Con­fer­ence – 28 April‑2 May 2025
Keynotes, pan­els, round­table, work­shops and paper presentations

Join us to explore the crit­i­cal role of visu­al and mul­ti­modal anthro­pol­o­gy in address­ing con­tem­po­rary glob­al issues. Sub­mit your pro­pos­als and con­tribute to a dynam­ic and inclu­sive forum for inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative schol­ar­ly exchange.

Pan­el Sub­mis­sion Guidelines:

1. Pan­el, Round­table, and Work­shop Proposals:

• Title: Con­cise and descriptive.
• Short Abstract: a (very) short abstract of less than 300 characters,
• Long Abstract: a long abstract of 250 words

2. Impor­tant Dates:

• Call for Pan­els Clos­es: 1 Octo­ber 2024
• Call for Papers Opens: 1 Novem­ber 2024
• Call for Papers Clos­es: 17 Jan­u­ary 2025
• Reg­is­tra­tion Opens: 24 Feb­ru­ary 2025

To Sub­mit: All pro­pos­als must be made via an online form https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/raiff2025/panel-form

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